Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea.

Canada and the Philippines are in the final stages of negotiating a key defense pact that would allow their forces to hold larger military drills, said the Canadian ambassador to Manila while raising concerns over China’s “provocative and unlawful actions” in the region.

Chinese rescuers searched for some 30 people after a landslide on Saturday in southwestern Sichuan province buried 10 houses and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate.

An American professor and a Japanese author, speaking to reporters Friday in the Japanese capital, said their nations should take a less militaristic approach to challenges in the region.

U.S. Navy sailors and Japanese emergency responders conducted training at a Navy port on Friday to rehearse their response to a simulated crash of a P-8 Poseidon aircraft with casualties outside a military base on Okinawa.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has been impeached on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president and engaging in large-scale corruption. 

The U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Air Force, the Department of Homeland Security, and Mexican authorities, is searching the Eastern Pacific Ocean for a missing crew member from the cutter Waesche, the service announced Friday.

Army Pvt. Collin Scherer, a military police officer based in Hawaii, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to receive and soliciting production of sexually explicit photos and videos of children, the Army said Thursday.

U.S. Navy sailors carved a replica of an F-35C Lightning II for their entry in the 75th annual Sapporo Snow Festival on Japan’s northernmost main island.